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In a week of far-reaching betrayal by union leaders the green light has been given for yet another round of attacks on the jobs, wages and conditions of public sector workers.

ON TUESDAY, leaders of the Civil and Public Services Association collapsed ignominiously in front of a threatened government lock-out and called off the union's ban on compiling statistics for the Department of Employment - a move originally taken as part of against the es feeble programme ON WEDNESDAY night the miners' National Executive voted by 14-11 to accept a complete sell-out of their demand for early retirement for all miners. The demand, though Justified, had been dragged out to divert from a struggle on wages. But now even the diversion itself has been sold short.

ON FRIDAY, leaders of Britain's biggest white collar union, NALGO, successfully held off demands that the NEC withold support from "any agreement for the further extension of the Social Contract"

And on SATURDAY, Postal Workers leader Tom Jackson grovelled before a Court of Appeal injunction and called off the union's token one week blacking of mail and telecommuniThe ultra right-wing NALGO NEC spokesman Glyn Phillips: against even one-day strike action.

question round.

"Does any of these people ever go to the members and tell them this is the only way to stop the cuts? It is high time the NEC went into some branches and dragged their members, kicking and screaming, into the fight."

"On our picket line in the snow yesterday you could have seen a number of the part-time 50 year-old married ladies who are supposed to be the reactionary backbone of the union."

"Localised actions cannot stop the cuts - they will only be picked off by the employers.

"Concerted, national strike action is the only way to change the national policy of the government."

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